Carol J. Adams (BA, '72) Carol Adams’s The Pornography of Meat: New and Updated was published in October 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic. As the black cover copy explains, “For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and hold to account the degrading interplay of language about women, domesticated animals, and meat in advertising, politics, and media. Serving as a sequel and visual companion, The Pornography of Meat charts the continued influence of this language and the fight against it. . . . This new edition includes more than 300 images, most of them new, and brings the book up to date to include expressions of misogyny in online media and advertising, the #MeToo movement, and the impact of Donald Trump and white supremacy on our political language. Never has this book, or Adams’s analysis, been more relevant.” Her book The Sexual Politics of Meat, published in 1990, has never been out of print and has been translated into 12 languages, with two more being added in 2021.

Joseph Amato (BA, '60) has published his fifth poetry book, Trinity of Graces, after a long career writing numerous reviews, articles, and more than twenty-five books, published with ten or so major university presses and a variety of small presses. His primary focus has been in European intellectual and cultural history, with titles on Guilt and Gratitude, The Origins of Modern Conscience; Victims and Values: A History of Suffering; Mounier and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World, as well as path-breaking works in new forms of history, such as Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible; On Foot: A History; and Surfaces: A History. He has additionally pioneered rural and regional studies in Southwest Minnesota State University and has authored reflective works on bypass surgery, golf, and death. All this is to be found in brief in an article written by a former student for Wikipedia and at length on his home page, JosephAAmato.com.

Michael Brown (PhD, '14) has just published his first book, based on his dissertation and titled Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics. The book is just out from Chicago, https://amzn.to/3ycx9Np. It seems to be selling like hotcakes: Amazon ranks it the #1 new release in political history.

Alexandra Cade (BA, '14) is a senior curator at the Sigal Music Museum in Greenville, SC, and has recently opened a major exhibition, “Sensational Sigal: Treasures from the Musical Instrument Collection of Marlowe A. Sigal.” This exhibition celebrates one of America’s most prominent 20th-century musical instrument collectors and features nearly one hundred European and American keyboard instruments, wind instruments, guitars, and rare books. Many of these objects are on public display for the first time and showcase a compelling narrative surrounding craftsmanship, technology, and the process of collecting.

Kathleen B. Casey (PhD, '10) is an associate professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan University.

Sam Claussen (PhD, '10) has published Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile with Boydell and Brewer Press.

Paul Dingman (PhD, '12) was a panelist for an AHA Webinar in September 2020 on Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry.

Rebecca A.R. Edwards (PhD, '97), professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology, published Deaf Players in Major League Baseball: A History, 1883 to the Present (McFarland, 2020). The book was selected as a 2021 SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Baseball Research Award winner. The award “honors those whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball.” A SABR reviewer declared that the book “confronts the obstacles and challenges faced by deaf ballplayers striving for the major leagues, but also reveals how the deafness of those who broke through enhanced their abilities on the diamond, elevated their teammates and enriched the game.”

Rachel Fisher (PhD, '91) made a documentary film about Rabbi Joachim Prinz, the German Jewish refugee rabbi who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington. The website is http://www.prinzdocumentary.or....

Mitch Gruber (PhD, '16) is featured in a Careers Unfiltered podcast interview. The interview is available to stream at https://spoti.fi/3Aimti1.

Kenneth Hawkins (PhD, '91) retired in May 2020 after twenty-seven years as an archivist and program manager at the National Archives and Records Administration. After co-editing volumes 6 and 7 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (Johns Hopkins University Press) in the early 1990s, he joined the National Archives and worked as an archivist and information technology program manager. He managed the transfer of over 800 million digital records from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama White Houses to NARA. He was detailed to the Obama White House from 2015 to 2017 to manage the control and transfer of its electronic PRA records. He advised the Oregon Historical Society and the Princeton University Art Museum on the WPA photography of Minor White in 2016-2018. Since retiring, he has been researching and writing, most recently “A Proper Attitude of Resistance: The Oregon Letters of A.H. Francis to Frederick Douglass, 1851-1860,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 2020).

Jeffrey Jackson (PhD, '99) has published Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis (Algonquin Books, 2020).

Phil Koyoumjian (PhD, '19) has published "Ownership and Use of Maps in England, 1660–1760,” in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. https://bit.ly/3qRo22t

Christina Matta (BA, '96) is a career advisor and alumni liaison in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kevin Mattson (PhD, '98) has published a new book, We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, freshly out from Oxford University Press: https://amzn.to/3qF7zOt.

William A. Peniston (PhD, '97) After 25 years at the Newark Museum of Art as its librarian and archivist, Peniston retired at the end of March. He states: “It has been a wonderful career at a great institution in charge of fascinating collections in support of creative staff members and very smart researchers.” Perhaps now he will have more time for French history, which he studied so seriously at the University of Rochester.

Graeme Pente (MA, '13) completed a PhD in history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Jeffrey S. Reznick (BA, '92), with his colleague Donald Bliss, received the 2020 National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Regents Award for Scholarship or Technical Achievement for the article and video abstract “A Noble Experiment in Human Values: The Children’s Television Series Vegetable Soup and Its Initiative to Change the Environment for Racism in 1970s America,” published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television 2018; 46(3): 130-155. This is the highest honor bestowed by the NLM Board of Regents, the Congressionally-mandated advisory body to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Health, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Director of the NLM. The author’s manuscript of the article is freely available here, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p..., and the video abstract here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., along with a recent AHA column publication https://bit.ly/3dPH18g.

David Alan Rich (BA, '78) reports that 2020 was his busiest year in a long time: he retired from a quarter of a century of work in the Justice Department, where he was a senior forensic historian; he also dodged the Coronavirus successfully and seized a brief opening between travel lock-downs to move himself permanently to Bologna, Italy. And during all this, he even made a significant dent in his research and writing agenda, completing two draft chapters for books on postwar war crimes trials (his contributions exploring Soviet trials of collaborators, particularly in the 1960s). He notes, “Life is good!”

Jeremy Saucier (PhD, '10) is featured in a recent interview on the Careers Unfiltered podcast, available at https://spoti.fi/2UOTYs2.

Kathryn Slocum (BA, '01) graduated from the wooden boat building program at The Landing School in Arundel, ME, in May. With her co-builder Nick Tonello of Cape Cod, MA, she christened and launched her first wooden boat—the 16 ½’ Lowell Town Class sloop POMONA—on September 1, 2020. Kate’s next boat project is a traditional Norwegian faering she plans to launch in 2021.

Jonathan Strassfeld (PhD, '20) has signed a contract with the University of Chicago Press for his first book, based on his UR dissertation. It should be in print by late summer 2022. Additionally, his article "'I am aware this letter may be offensive': The Unapologetic Achievements of Ruth Barcan Marcus and Marjorie Glicksman Grene" has been accepted for publication by the Journal of the History of Ideas.